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State-Sponsored Doxing and Manipulation of the U.S. Election: How Should the U.S. Government Respond?
As Thomas Rid explains in this terrific piece in Esquire, the Russian government has developed a remarkable capacity for blending the fruits of espionage with information operations designed to manipulat... -
National Security Highlights from the Final Presidential Debate
The third and final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at the University of Nevada Las Vegas last night, with Chris Wallace moderating. In the most important moment o... -
Presidential Debate National Security Bingo
Like many of you, I find myself unable to resist watching the debate this evening despite the fact that the last one actually left me felling physically ill. But I'm hoping to lighten the experience a bi... -
The Apprentice Tapes May Be a Threat to National Security
Recent disclosures about Donald Trump’s remarks to Billy Bush have raised speculation that unaired footage from The Apprentice might contain similarly troubling content, which would cause obvious problem... -
Beyond Grabbing: Gender, Conflict, and the National Security Establishment
The next Administration faces a daunting list of challenges that combine military power and profound societal issues—from Mosul after ISIS, to another new strategy for Afghanistan, to preventing the furt... -
A Coalition of All Democratic Forces, Part II: A Government of National Unity
Bill Clinton ran for president as a “New Democrat,” one who would thread the needle between Left and Right. George W. Bush promised that he was “a uniter, not a divider” and a “compassionate conservativ... -
A Coalition of All Democratic Forces, Part I: A Political Focus on What's Truly Important
The past two election cycles, my wife and I have hosted a “No Cheers, No Jeers,” non-partisan election returns party. -
U.S. Cyber Responses to Russian Hacking of the November Election
Recent news reports regarding Russian hacks affecting the November election suggest that the United States is preparing on possible U.S. cyber actions in response, such as revealing information to the Ru... -
What Reinhold Niebuhr Can Tell Us About Donald Trump
Sinclair Lewis and Elia Kazan have had their Nostradamus moments this year, Lewis for the 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here (“predicted the rise of Donald Trump”—The Guardian) and Kazan for the 1957 film A... -
Peter Keisler on Trump's Promise to Jail Hillary Clinton
Peter Keisler, former head of the Justice Department's Civil Division and Acting Attorney General of the United States, writes in with the following important point about my piece yesterday on Trump's th... -
National Security Highlights from the Second Presidential Debate
The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at Washington University in St. Louis in a town-hall conversation moderated by Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper. Thoug... -
Grab 'em by the Constitution: Trump and the Justice Department
I hate to say "I told you so," but gosh, I told you so. A few months ago, during Trump's ascendancy in the GOP primaries, I wrote a piece about his likely impact on and abuse of the powers of the U.S. D...
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